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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Aye it's true whats said, the thread is called ***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Maybe start a totally separate thread for Stability Tests? Seems like a good idea to me. :)
 
weescott said:
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Temps are irrelevent when comparing one setup to another as there are way too many variables to consider - even if it is the same batch/stepping this will not guarentee the same or even similar temps as anyone who has had a C2D will contest.

Can't wait to get hold of my quad and I honestly don't expect a stability run for a few days after that. As Weescott says its all a bit of fun - stability is important and paramount in the long term but I like to see how far I can push stuff before I settle on a 24/7 overclock. 12 sec Pi-runs and 3dmark are much better to run than prime in the short term :D
 
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3.4ghz B3..Cannot go much further as this DS4 mobo is limiting me..
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Hey guys,

cool down a bit. I understand why someone would post a 1MB super-PI shot and not a straight 8-24 hour Prime stable shot, its probably because the poster is excited and keen to show the world his current overclock etc.

I get as excited as everyone else when I am clocking a new chip but whenever I share my findings with other forum members I always wait until I am sure of the results and normally will only post a screenie of say 12-24 hours of prime stability.

Stability is king, mega clocks mean nothing to me unless they are stable (and therefore usable.) Unstable overclocks are only for kids over at XS forums and people who make benchmark records, in the latter the machine is stable enough if it can complete 3Dmark! :D

Horse for courses I guess but I would just like to say thanks in advance to people who take time to test properly and then share their findings with the rest of us! :)
 
w3bbo said:
Give him a break ffs. Like most people he wants to see how high it goes before doing some 24/7 stability checks. I'm sure he will provide some prime shots when he has settled on an overclock.
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Yeah but you can tell with prime95 after a few minutes if you have a bad clock.

As Azza said he was getting failures on core2 after the second step, I bet if he kept it going a bit longer he'd get failures on 2 or three cores. Thats what I was seeing with Prime95 when I was doing quick tests.

Also there isn't much other than Prime95 that will show you what the temps are like under load. Thats also an important metric in determining at a glance whether a particular overclock is going to be something you stick with or if its just too much.

I run a quick 10 minute prime after an overclock just to get a handle on it and see what temps are like before moving on. Its not perfect but its good practice and would have kept the wolves at bay a bit in here. :)
 
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Got my B3 stable at 3.45 @ 1.46, temps are alittle high 68 68 66 66. Been priming for 3 hrs.

Quick question, about my water cooling, I have the apogee gt, and was thinking of getting a fuzion, does the bolts through the board from the apogee gt fit the fuzion, so I don't need to remove the m/b?
 
weescott said:
This is overclockers, who says it has to be stable to be posted here?
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Me :o


Just kidding...

Its nice to see some Quad G0 action.

But I'm just one for stabilty clocks.

TBH its not hard to throw 1.7v into a chip and boot it.

But in all essence what does it actually mean?

The hard part is getting a nice stable clock with nice ram timings and speeds to match.
 
w3bbo said:
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but I like to see how far I can push stuff before I settle on a 24/7 overclock. 12 sec Pi-runs and 3dmark are much better to run than prime in the short term :D
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If you wanna max out your hardware get phase as water clearly has its limitations.
 
vocch said:
Mine is now as in sig totally flat!...as a tester if both are flat cpu will stick to heatsink like a magnet to show no air in between them.
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Um if I leave this one alone, it'll be the first one Ive haven't lapped. The convex area on the bottom here is going to exert a lot of pressure. Once Ive finished priming I'll take the HSF off and check the contact area. If its spread the TIM well out I'll leave it be, there's little to gain from full contact to the IHS corners. All it'll do is drop the contact pressure.

Oh prime 3hrs btw.
 
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fornowagain said:
Um if I leave this one alone, it'll be the first one Ive haven't lapped. The convex area on the bottom here is going to exert a lot of pressure. Once Ive finished priming I'll take the HSF off and check the contact area. If its spread the TIM well out I'll leave it be, there's little to gain from full contact to the IHS corners. All it'll do is drop the contact pressure.

Oh prime 3hrs btw.
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I see what you mean and if your getting good temps by all means leave it be...but i were'nt and now can't fault mine so i don't regret lapping my Heasink. :)

Edit: According to the review of the TRUE here's a quote ( the Ultra-120 Extreme's base is bowed, we could have ~2C better temps if only we'd lap the base of our Ultra-120 Extreme ) also it adds if you want more pressure is to use ( "extra material" between the bracket and the heatsink's base-top and we saw a 2-4C drop in our CPU's temperatures ) so that could be worth a try. :)
 
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